August 27, 2025 - by Fred Bates
In a letter dated August 4, 2025, to Pardon Attorney Edward Martin, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene requested that the Office of the Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice urge President Trump to commute the sentence of former Congressman George Santos. Santos, who was expelled from Congress in 2023, is serving seven years in federal prison for campaign related crimes of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Among other things, Rep. Greene alleged that many of her colleagues have committed far worse offenses that Santos. but have faced zero criminal charges. Rep. Greene is absolutely right! In March of this year, I filed an ethics complaint against Congressman Sam Liccardo for his role in a scheme to obstruct justice during a lawsuit I filed against the City of San Jose for racial and disability discrimination when Liccardo was a councilmember and Mayor of the City of San Jose. I am black/African American. During this scheme to obstruct justice, Liccardo and members of the San Jose City Council directed attorneys for the City to perpetrate fraud on the U.S. District Court in San Jose and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by filing a motion for summary judgment based on several false claims. Liccardo and City leaders also directed two police officials to commit perjury in their depositions, and in a declaration in support of the City's fraudulent motion for summary judgment. One of those police officials, a defendant in my lawsuit, was dismissed by a fraudulent stipulation between my attorney and the City without my consent or a settlement agreement. That same police official was bribed by City officials with a promotion from Captain to Deputy Chief of Police in return for his perjured testimony relative to my lawsuit. My attorney was also paid off by the City of San Jose for his role in the criminal scheme of the City to obstruct justice. Liccardo was at the forefront of this scheme by the City that included the crimes of perjury, subornation of perjury, tampering with a witness, bribery, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
So far Congressman Liccardo has faced zero criminal charges based on my complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics, and on a report documenting the obstruction of justice that occurred in my lawsuit that I submitted to the Supreme Court, and leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate. Liccardo's crimes are far worse than those that former Congressman Santos is serving time for. Many, if not all, are felonies that undermine the judicial process, democracy, and the rule of law. To see the report that I submitted to the Supreme Court and Congress, as well as a copy of my complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Congressman Liccardo, access my website at the link below:
www.cheatingscandalinsiliconvalley.com
